As you may have noticed from hundreds of blog posts, articles and books published every year we are bombarded with what are essentially human judgements packaged as sage advice. Be it lessons we are asked to learn from Raj or Steve Jobs we are presented with biased opinions of authors who cherry pick evidence to fit their preconceived notion and fail to seek contradicting evidence.

Let us learn to cast aside such proclamations for they are merely biased opinions.

Note: Notice how measured Pearl is in even in this simple statement, he qualified with “often”. I am making a stronger statement here than Pearl did because of my bias and the fact that we don’t stand to lose much if we ignored most advices from gurus vs. spending time adopting them.